Welcome from the Medical College of Wisconsin Anesthesiology Chief Residents
My name is Dr. Rasheed Richards, and I am one of the 2023-2024 Anesthesiology Chief Residents along with Dr. Anna Cholewa, and Dr. Paul Otto. Thanks for your interest in our residency program. I’m happy to share my experiences at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee!
The training offered at MCW is some of the best in the country. By training at a regional medical center, our residents swiftly become comfortable and competent clinicians by taking care of large volumes of high-acuity patients. Our adult and pediatric level 1 trauma centers are the only ones in southeastern Wisconsin and have a wide catchment area. We provide care for patients undergoing operations in all surgical specialties, including complex neurosurgery, major trauma, high-risk obstetrics, complex pediatrics, liver/kidney transplant, heart transplant, ECMO/mechanical cardiac support, and a rapidly growing lung transplant program. For those interested in additional training after residency, MCW hosts fellowship programs in all anesthesia subspecialties, and every year our residents match into competitive programs nationally. MCW graduates are heavily recruited for jobs in the Milwaukee area, the Midwest, and across the country. Our program has a reputation among prospective employers across the country for producing well-prepared and highly competent consultant anesthesiologists. Moreover, MCW remains a family-friendly program, with excellent peer-peer and resident-attending relationships.
Milwaukee is an exciting city with tons to offer from our sports teams to a vibrant food and nightlife scene. Though Milwaukee has all the resources of a large metropolitan city, it is small enough to offer the benefits of lower traffic congestion and an excellent cost-of-living. With access to Lake Michigan, great weather, summers in Milwaukee are some of the best in the country. Many of our residents live in the downtown area, with easy access to the numerous concerts and music festivals that come to town. Downtown Milwaukee is also home to many breweries and art museums, which serve as major attractions to the area. Our residents hail from across the United States and across the world. This spectrum of unique sociocultural backgrounds truly helps to color our residency program’s academic and clinical experiences with different ideas and perspectives, which we believe helps us to remain culturally responsive while caring for our diverse patient population.
All three of the Chief Residents this year are proud to represent our program, and we encourage you to comb through this site or to reach out for more information.
Sincerely,
Rasheed Richards, MD, MEd
Chief Resident
Department of Anesthesiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
The training offered at MCW is some of the best in the country. By training at a regional medical center, our residents swiftly become comfortable and competent clinicians by taking care of large volumes of high-acuity patients. Our adult and pediatric level 1 trauma centers are the only ones in southeastern Wisconsin and have a wide catchment area. We provide care for patients undergoing operations in all surgical specialties, including complex neurosurgery, major trauma, high-risk obstetrics, complex pediatrics, liver/kidney transplant, heart transplant, ECMO/mechanical cardiac support, and a rapidly growing lung transplant program. For those interested in additional training after residency, MCW hosts fellowship programs in all anesthesia subspecialties, and every year our residents match into competitive programs nationally. MCW graduates are heavily recruited for jobs in the Milwaukee area, the Midwest, and across the country. Our program has a reputation among prospective employers across the country for producing well-prepared and highly competent consultant anesthesiologists. Moreover, MCW remains a family-friendly program, with excellent peer-peer and resident-attending relationships.
Milwaukee is an exciting city with tons to offer from our sports teams to a vibrant food and nightlife scene. Though Milwaukee has all the resources of a large metropolitan city, it is small enough to offer the benefits of lower traffic congestion and an excellent cost-of-living. With access to Lake Michigan, great weather, summers in Milwaukee are some of the best in the country. Many of our residents live in the downtown area, with easy access to the numerous concerts and music festivals that come to town. Downtown Milwaukee is also home to many breweries and art museums, which serve as major attractions to the area. Our residents hail from across the United States and across the world. This spectrum of unique sociocultural backgrounds truly helps to color our residency program’s academic and clinical experiences with different ideas and perspectives, which we believe helps us to remain culturally responsive while caring for our diverse patient population.
All three of the Chief Residents this year are proud to represent our program, and we encourage you to comb through this site or to reach out for more information.
Sincerely,
Rasheed Richards, MD, MEd
Chief Resident
Department of Anesthesiology
Medical College of Wisconsin